I don't come from a journalism background. I was a public defender, and still consider myself to be one, honestly. In the law, a profession where ability to represent *any* position is *essential,* we still generally recognize that humans are humans with their own perspectives.
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1396244779202224129
When I started doing journalistic work with, working for The Appeal and hosting Appeal Live, it was incredibly strange to me to encounter media norms, in which one is expected to take on a pretense of inhuman, unrealistic neutrality.
This case isn't even a close one--things you said or did long before you had a job, generally, aren't the kind of *on the job* things that can get you fired...unless you're into pretending that journalists aren't humans with human perspectives.
Which is dumb, and unrealistic.
Which is dumb, and unrealistic.
It's time we stop pretending that the people reporting the news aren't people, and time we welcome the kind of open acknowledgments of positionality that make news reporting more honest, realistic, and inclusive.
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